Geraldine Evans is the best-selling British author of police procedurals, romantic suspense, suspense, historical and romantic novels.
She has been published Macmillan, St Martin’s Press, Worldwide, Hale, Severn House and Isis (audio), and is now a self-publisher. Her historical novel, Reluctant Queen, about Mary Rose Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII, is a Category No 1 Best Seller on Amazon UK.
I edited Death Dues, #11 in Evans’ 15 popular Rafferty and Llewellyn cozy police procedurals.
Death Dues:With a wedding budget spiralling out of control and his Superintendent demanding a swift resolution to the muggings of a local loan shark’s collectors, DI Joe Rafferty is anticipating a long and trying week.
He isn’t disappointed.
One John ‘Jaws’ Harrison is found with his skull caved in in an alleyway backing onto rundown Primrose Avenue, killed on his way to collect debt repayments. The spontaneous, quick-thinking Rafferty and his methodical partner Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn arm themselves with a list of local debtors and begin investigating. But they haven’t counted on a conspiracy of silence amongst the residents, most of whom have good reason to want Jaws dead.
With his Super breathing down his neck and his fiancée Abra making his blood pressure boil, Rafferty is forced to stretch his intuitive powers to breaking point.
If the only way to solve the murder is to get a little creative—with the truth or anything else—Rafferty reckons it’s better he does it than anyone else. It’s really just a matter of getting away with it . . .
‘With a healthy dose of British social and cultural observation that adds to a believable setting and plot. Lovely use of descriptive phrases bring to life the ambiance of the area and its residents. Dialogue is precise, but it’s the background descriptions of settings and protagonists that shine. Lively and fun, with absorbing interplay between DI Joe Rafferty and sidekick Sgt Llewellyn. Replete with strong protagonists, infused with British atmosphere, and filled with intrigue and personal concerns alike, Death Dues is a fine detective saga.’ —D. Donovan, eBook reviewer, Midwest Book Review
While we worked together, Evans was also working on Asking For It, #16 in her Rafferty and Llewellyn series, as well as the tentatively-titled Plantagenet historical novel, The Nearly Queen. She has two police procedurals, Up in Flames and A Killing Karma, in her new series, Casey and Catt. She is also self-publishing on Kindle her traditionally-published romance, Land of Dreams and through POD Reluctant Queen.
Evans has self-published the nonfiction: How to eFormat Your Novel For Amazon’s Kindle: A Short But Comprehensive A-Z Guide, which has been praised on Amazon for being ‘Soooooo easy!’, ‘Enlightening,’ and a ‘GREAT informative book.’ Under the name Gennifer Dooley-Hart, she writes about New Age subjects, with two short nonfiction books available: Palmistry Pointers For Lovers and Palmistry Pointers For Writers. Under the pen-name Maria Meredith, Evans writes non-erotica romances, including her first self-published romance, The Wishing Fountain.
Evans says:
“Tremendously helpful—lessons in writing! Victoria, it makes such a difference to have your thorough edit supply the education I never had. Especially now that so many claim to provide editorial services (charging high fees without doing much work), you’re a lucky find, worth every penny: thorough, painstaking, a diamond on a pebble beach. I’m happy to recommend you heartily to other writers.”